Half Lives
by zen_
Posted to Action Poetry on 2003-09-23 06:54:00
Half citizens, ha’folks
We’re seeming to be
Wretched lives pulled apart
Broken like toys
Cast asunder like chaff
Half diets fed of chow
Governmental issue
Substandard sustenance
Half rooms boarded in haste
Top bunk or the bottom
Filled to the brink of ten
As they manage us sardines
Half-lives decaying fast
Criminal elements
Isolated like heavy
Numbered isotopes.
— May 1994